Jon Malay,
an AMS Member,
a
Fellow of the AMS,
and the AMS President for 2011,
is director of Civil Space and Environment Programs for
Lockheed Martin Corporation's
Washington Operations in Arlington, Virginia.
Both of Mr. Malay's degrees (BS in oceanography,
United States Naval Academy, 1973 and MS in meteorology,
Naval Postgraduate School, 1974)
are from schools operated by the
United States Department of Defense.
In a 20-year career with the
United States Navy ,
he served first as a surface warfare officer, specializing in antisubmarine warfare,
and in 1977 became a full-time specialist in oceanography and meteorology.
At the
Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center
and the Naval Underwater Systems Center (now the
Naval Undersea Warfare Center),
he gained experience in operations and applied research in numerical weather prediction
and physical oceanography.
In 1984, he was a finalist for NASA astronaut mission specialist, but instead went on
to serve as a meteorological officer on the USS NIMITZ (CVN-68).
One of the US Navy's lead experts in satellite remote sensing, Mr. Malay was the
first meteorologist / oceanographer to serve at the Naval Space Command (now part of the
Naval Network Warfare Command),
and then was the space specialist on the Oceanographer of the Navy's staff from
1989 to 1992, from which he was sent on special detail to the
National Reconnaissance Office
until his retirement in 1993.
Except for one year on the
NOAA
NESDIS staff as a senior research scientist with the Environmental Research
Institute of Michigan, his civilian career has been focused on Earth and space
science business development for
Orbital Sciences Corporation,
Ball Aerospace, and at Lockheed Martin's Washington
Operations, where he has been since 2003.
Mr. Malay joined the AMS as a midshipman in 1970 and has served on the Committee
for Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography.
A member of the
American Geophysical Union and the
Marine Technology Society, he is also a Fellow and Past-President of the
American Astronautical Society, and an Associate Fellow and past
board member of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics.
He was co-author of the 2004 National Geographic Encyclopedia of Space and
author of Seraphim Sky, a first novel.